Countryside : discover the unsual “Entroterra Ligure”
in Liguria Outback | 30 April 2012There are many interesting things to see in the outskirts of Garlenda and the valleys around Albenga.
Small towns and villages may seem all alike to the hurried tourist, but it is not so: every hamlet has its own castle, its legends, its special features. It will be a surprise the ligurian Entroterra (inland countryside) : the colours , full…
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Villanova d’Albenga
in Liguria Outback | 25 March 2012The name of the village, “New Town”, explains its origin. It was founded in the 13th Century when the powerful Albenga needed a crown of fortified satellites all around to protect itself and its rich territories from envious neighbors.
Villanova, the first of several “little daughters”, is therefore a miniature copy of mother Albenga, but here the…
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Zuccarello
in Liguria Outback | 25 March 2012Zuccarello was founded in the Middle Ages: in 1998 the village celebrated its 750th birthday with an impressive historical pageant.
Seems that the old town was built by the inhabitants from Christmas 1248 to Christmas 1249 and in an ancient historical document has found a curious pact : decreed that those who had not completed his residency by the due…
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